This paper reports findings from an innovative arts‐based intervention with Looked After Children and young people and concludes that holding these competing value sets in creative tension is central to the success of the programme in helping young people to cope with and contest social harm.

In this interview, Andy Bilson - Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire, Associate Director of The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, and researcher promoting children’s rights and reform of child protection systems - discusses the trends in children's care and protection in the UK and globally over the past few decades.

In the current article, the cognitive, emotional, mental health, and behavioural benefits of deinstitutionalisation for children with varied disabilities in India and UK are discussed.

The authors of this study investigated whether migration background and the gender of the parent who maltreated the child seem associated with the decision whether a case was opened for continuing services.

This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with the objective of exploring the knowledge that social workers use to make decisions regarding permanency arrangements for Looked after Children.

Through the two-year project ‘Leaving Care – An Integrated Approach to Capacity Building of Professionals and Young People’, SOS Children’s Villages, in collaboration with international project partners, aimed to train care professionals in how to apply a child rights-based approach in their work with young people leaving care and worked to strengthen support networks for young care leavers.

This project aimed to identify factors that might explain the ‘attainment gap’ for Children in Need (CIN) and Children in Care (CIC) in England.

This report describes the experiences of Truth Project participants who were sexually abused in custodial institutions in the UK between the 1950s and 2010s.

This article describes the empirical results of perspectives and experiences of 11 parents’ engagement in child protection assessment practice through in-depth semi-structured interviews in one county in North Estonia.

This study explores the relationship between a key early intervention policy in England designed to support families with children up to the age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care.